White hunter, black heart

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Movie
German title	White hunter, black heart
Original title	White Hunter Black Heart
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1990
length	107 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Clint Eastwood
script	Peter Quarters , James Bridges , Burt Kennedy
production	Clint Eastwood, David Valdes
music	Lennie Niehaus
camera	Jack N. Green
cut	Joel Cox
occupation
Clint Eastwood : John Wilson Jeff Fahey : Pete Verrill Charlotte Cornwell : Miss Wilding Norman Lumsden : George George Dzundza : Paul Landers Edward Tudor Pole : Reissar Roddy Maude-Roxby : Thompson Richard Warwick : Basil Fields John Rapley : Arms Seller Catherine Neilson : Irene Saunders Marisa Berenson : Kay Gibson Richard Vanstone : Phil Duncan Alun Armstrong : Ralph Lockhart Boy Mathias Chuma : Kivu

White Hunter Black Heart ( White Hunter Black Heart ) is an American adventure film by Clint Eastwood from the year 1990 . The script by Peter Viertel , James Bridges and Burt Kennedy is based on the novel Viertels of the same name.

action

Director John Wilson and screenwriter Pete Verrill travel to Africa to prepare to shoot a new film. There, Wilson devotes himself to hunting elephants , although he agrees with his colleague that hunting is a crime against nature . The conflicts between the men are increasing.

Eventually, the tour guide Kivu dies trying to protect Wilson from an angry elephant. Wilson then stops hunting.

background

Peter Viertel, the author of the novel, was inspired by events during the filming of African Queen (1951), which he attended as a screenwriter. John Huston , the director of African Queen , hunted regularly in Africa while filming.

Eastwood's film was shot in England , Zambia and Zimbabwe . It grossed approximately $ 2.3 million in US cinemas .

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an "exciting, for film fans enlightening portrait of the cinematic adventurer" that was loosely based on a partly fictional biography of John Huston , but had less to do with John Huston and more with Clint Eastwood.

Awards

The film ran in 1990 in competition at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for best film. He was also nominated for Best Director (Clint Eastwood) at the CFCA Awards.

literature

• Peter Viertel : white hunter, black heart. Roman (Original Title: White Hunter, Black Heart ). German by Otto Schrag . Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch, Volume 11722. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1991, 512 pages, ISBN 3-404-11722-0

Web links

• White Hunter Black Heart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• White Hunter Black Heart at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• White hunter, black heart in the online movie database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ the title of the German-language first edition was Mann im Dschungel
2. ^ Filming locations for White Hunter Black Heart
3. ↑ Box office / business for White Hunter Black Heart
4. ↑ White Hunter, Black Heart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .